The blood-red sky enveloped everything in the world, and thin whispers echoed in He Ao's ears.
The mountains and dense forests that once appeared naturally disappeared, and the entire world was left with only endless blood red.
Harsh and crazy murmurs have been echoing, they are like crazy bugs, surrounding He Ao's ears, trying to get into his ears and into his brain.
He Ao felt as if his body was falling into an endless abyss. These whispers were pulling him, trying to pull him into eternal madness.
And vaguely, he vaguely felt that there were other 'shadows' in this blood-red world, and they were very close to him.
He fell faster and faster, faster and faster.
The moment he was about to fall into the deepest part of the abyss, he suddenly opened his eyes.
The bright sunlight shines on He Ao's cheek.
This is a room in a chain express hotel in Beicheng District.
Most hotels in the Commonwealth will require customers to provide their passport number or social security card number to verify identity information when checking in.
Of course, some people ask for identity information, and some don't.
Some chain hotels allow you to check in at will without registering, but you need to pay a higher deposit.
The hotel that He Ao is staying in now is such a hotel.
He turned over and sat up from the bed, walked to the bathroom, turned on the cold water faucet, took a cup of water, and rinsed his face.
Cold water can no longer cause cold stimulation to He Ao's current body, but due to psychological factors, He Ao will still wake up briefly when he splashes water on his face.
After entering the wilderness, he almost never closed his eyes to rest. He was either running for promotion and secret medicine, or hunting strange beasts.
Now that the problem of the secret medicine has been solved in a short period of time, he checked into a room last night and rested for the night.
The physical quality of the extraordinary does not require sleep, but sleep can help the soul recover from fatigue, and,
Make yourself more like a human being.
The crazy whispering still existed even when He Ao opened his eyes, but the sound was much lower.
And whenever He Ao closed his eyes, the whispers would immediately become noisy.
If it were another person, he might have been driven crazy by these whispers.
As He Ao was promoted, his compatibility with this bloody world became higher and higher, and the whispers in his ears became louder and louder, and he pursued He Ao like a gangrene attached to his bones.
He Ao wiped his cheeks dry with a towel, changed his clothes, hung up his swords and mithril test tube, moved the wardrobe blocking the door, and opened the room door.
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The old streets are busy with traffic, and these passing lights are reflected one by one on the dilapidated mirrors of the shops, forming the boundary between reality and illusion.
The young man wearing a mask and a snow-white windbreaker raised his head.
Above his head, a huge signboard was shining with a faint light.
[Integrity Crafts Store]
This is the craft shop that sold Nell's old sword at a very low price.
The last time Nell came here, although the store was not doing well, people were still shopping and it was operating normally.
Just a few days later, the store door was locked tightly with a big lock, and there was no one inside the craft store.
However, the interior furnishings of the craft store have not changed much, and the crafts and exhibits are still placed in their original locations.
This store will no longer be open for a short period of time.
He Ao walked forward, patted the store door gently, and shouted a few times, but there was no response from the store.
It seems that there is really no one left.
For some reason, Mr. He Ao found this handicraft store a little weird.
So before everything started, he came back specifically to investigate.
The process of getting the old sword for Nell was extremely smooth, as if someone wanted to give it to him specially.
If you think about it from another angle, Nell's inspiration is high enough, and he has a chance to trigger the 'divine revelation' hidden in the old sword.
But some things have different results in different people.
For He Ao, the murmurs he heard when he entered that mysterious realm were nothing more than tickle-level harassment. He could easily resist it and even leave freely.
For the former Nell, such 'tickling' could easily drive him into madness. Even if he survived the harassment of these nonsense words and faced the dead god in the deepest part of the secret realm, he would still go crazy in an instant.
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If it hadn't been for the arrival of Ho Ao, in future expectations, Nell, holding this old sword, would most likely have fallen into madness and become the nourishment of the dead god.
From this perspective, the old sword is not a 'blessing', but a 'curse'.
It's just that He Ao withstood all the curses with slightly better resistance and found the 'blessing' from the curse.
That's why He Ao thought of coming back to find this handicraft store.
He wanted to know whether the owner of the handicraft shop who sold the old sword to Nell was really out of ignorance or had another agenda.
The owner of the handicraft store was not there. He Ao searched for it but was unable to contact him. The owner seemed to have disappeared.
He Ao thought for a moment and went to another location related to the old sword.
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church middle school
Even in a completely gray life, there will occasionally be light that shines through.
Nell spent the happiest three years of her life in the church middle school.
Under the protection of his brothers and sisters, he has no worries and only needs to study with peace of mind.
He got good grades, his teachers and classmates liked him very much, and the priest also had high hopes for him.
From the depths of Nell's heart, he was not willing to doubt the priest. The priest occupied an important position in his only happy memory.
It was precisely because of the priest's attention and love that he was able to avoid being bullied in the church school.
But the cross was given to Nell by the priest, and it was precisely because the owner of the craft shop saw the cross that he sold Nell items related to the dead god.
Ho Ao sneaked into the church school and found the office of the priest who managed the school with ease.
However, the person sitting in the office now was no longer Nell's familiar face, but a fat and kind-hearted priest.
He Ao made some inquiries in the school and found out that the priest had been transferred shortly after Nell graduated.
No one knew his whereabouts. Over the years, the mission school had changed several priests, and the fat priest in front of him was already the third.
The building is empty.
The old and kind priest seemed to have left nothing behind, and he didn't seem to have given any black crosses to the other children.
He Ao pulled the dark cross out of his chest.
Could it be that I am really paranoid?
The two events of receiving the cross and purchasing the old sword were four years apart, so it seemed to be a coincidence.
But this is all too much of a coincidence.
However, the current situation did not exceed He Ao's expectations. He did not expect to obtain any particularly critical information from these two places at the beginning. Now, the abnormality in the handicraft store has confirmed his hypothesis to a certain extent.
After leaving the church middle school, he found several members of the Ice Wolf Gang, and through some 'eager and friendly' conversations, he obtained what the brown-haired young man said about the 'Eisen' home where his eldest brother and second sister were captured.
the address of.
The intertwined forces in Rock City form a dense web. If you pull out one end, you can always see some scenery on the other side.
He Ao had a hunch that all these 'clues' could actually be connected.
